YouTube is back!

Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

BTW for the three of you who haven't discovered yet, YouTube is down.

maybe this is that persons first death threat, and the creativity will come with more experiance

Nah. Or at least not near as creative as some of them I've got. This one was a basic "If I ever see you IRL I'll slit you're throat."

was it at least a creative threat?

Speaking of which.. Got a deaththeat today on an other messageboard.

Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pidgeon; no matter what you do it's going to shit on the board and strut around like it won.

Well, there is also the fact that the person you're arguing against won't accept the authority as neutral (or valid or credible) unless they agree with everything that person says.

Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Anyone who's ever argued with dumbasses on the internet knows how stubborn and persistent they can be. Dozens of people can tell them they're wrong, and they' just stick their fingers in their ears and go "na na can't hear you!"

Especially if its a bet about an objective truth. Chances are, you provide overwhelming evidence for your position, the dumbass won't accept your evidence or will just change the rules and then claim the money you allegedly owe him.

I've just been reminded of a life lesson: Never take a bet with a dumbass unless there's a neutral authority accepted by both sides that will decide on the winner.

Peace was never an option.

The war between the cerapods and the theropods continues to the modern era

The parrot, once I stopped pressing the button on the toy. It might have gone on forever otherwise.

Depends. Who won?

Should I be worried that my 40-year-old parrot got into a roaring contest with a Jurassic World toy?

was the bride's name Sarah Connor?

A sawed off shotgun is fairly easy to conceal. Of course, they're also illegal.

Maybe they wear a really, really baggy coat.

I don't wanna think about the body type where a SHOTGUN is concealed carry.

"If there any objections-" *Both sides pull out ridiculous amounts of weapons against each other*

Someone else quips in the comments, "I have heard of a shotgun wedding, but this is ridiculous!"

I saw a random shipost on Facebook. Evidently, there are people in the U.S. who have to ask wedding guests not to bring their concealed-carry weapons.

Hey.. I tried to say that google game streaming actually works pretty good... Now if that's depressing, that's a WHOLE nother ball of wax. ;D

The box is being used exactly as it was meant to: for random conversation. If it's depressing it's because the group whom use it is neither oblivious or stupid and we happen to be discussing depressing things.

I'm starting to feel like the box is being used in lieu of actual serious threads (not to be terrible but seeing this as soon as you get on the forums is depressing).

It's shameful that randos in richer countries pretend like it's not happening.

Small island countries are already sinking below sea level and being consumed by the ocean.

Which is why poorer countries are some of the ones most worried at this point, I imagine. Wealthy countries like the US, Canada, etc won't feel the effects nearly as soon

Realistically: there doesn't have to be truly catastrophic impacts to screw us all over. Frequent enough storms will disrupt our infrastructure, which will hobble our ability to rebuild quickly and cause pretty big backslides in quality of life. I don't mean "oh no, I can't charge my iphone", more like "dysentery is as common as the flu because the resources just aren't there to clean the water anymore".

If no, then procrastinate some more

Well, the most important question: is it going to stop me getting some drive thru at McDonald's?

It's kinda nuts seeing insurance ads tell everyone multiple 500-year storms a year is the new normal, but the general attitude over is still at best *shrug*.

Sad thing is... Boomers are still leaving their vile taint on a lot of the younger generation.

Certainly the boomers won't live to see it, and they're the worst generation for not giving a shit

We're seeing some of it, yeah, but very likely all the truly catastrophic impacts will hit once most of us are dead

Stupid thing is: We ARE seeing results in our lifetime, but it's still slow enough that we, as a culture, are willing to ignore it despite what the scientists are saying.

Captain Planet we need you

As long as nothing interrupts their morning latte and consumer-driven lifestyles, they're good

Because humans are notoriously bad at caring about things they don't see happening within their lifetimes

And no one else in my class cared. None of my teachers cared. My parents didn't care.

One of my more frustrating memories regarding Climate Change is from when I was in 2nd grade in 1996. My poor redneck middle-of-nowhere school had a decade old science textbook written so a 2nd grader could read it and it had enough about the impending Global Warming that I was worried as a 6 year old.

Plus a MUCH higher chance of lake effect snow: since milder means the great lakes will take that much longer to freeze over.

Eh, really does depend on what you look for in winter. "Milder" also usually means "wetter", so... you know, MORE snow to deal with.

It was unusually warm here as well, until 2 or 3 days ago. The temperature's a little more seasonal, now. They are predicting a milder winter than usual this year, which for Canada isn't such bad news

"Global warming is a myth" my ass. It's the middle of October, and summer is back in full swing. What the hell.

I can't remember the last time I used a gif avatar here

did something change about how avatars work here? I had a GIF as one and I can't get a new one to work